Lin Yanche Attacks Lu Xun and Chases Su Qingrou

Lin Yanche Attacks Lu Xun and Chases Su Qingrou is a turning-point confrontation in which a dispute over who has the right to condemn betrayal becomes an assault, then a pursuit. Lin Yanche’s violence toward Lu Xun is not an isolated burst of temper: it grows out of the wider collapse surrounding Su Qingrou, whose recent suffering, frail health, and attempt to escape the hospital ward make the conflict both a family crisis and a struggle over who may control her fate.

Causes and Background

The immediate dispute concerns Su Xiangwan’s accusation that Lin Yanche has repaid kindness with enmity. Lin Yanche rejects her right to speak as a member of the Su Family, insisting that such condemnation should come from Song Yun’er, or from an outsider, rather than from someone bearing the Su surname. His response turns moral language into a boundary of family power: the issue is no longer simply whether he has acted wrongly, but who is entitled to name the wrong.

The confrontation is intensified by the history surrounding Su Qingrou. Su Xiangwan has seen the silent tears and deep, uneven kiss marks on her sister’s body, as well as a photograph of Lin Yanche embracing Song Yun’er at almost the same time. That juxtaposition makes betrayal physically legible before anyone explains it. Su Qingrou’s proposed engagement ceremony with Jin Zhengnan, presented as a measure serving both companies, further reveals how private injury has been drawn into family and commercial strategy. Her claim that the family has a brother who can protect them does not remove the threat posed by Lin Yanche; it confirms that kinship itself has become a weapon and a shield.

The characters also carry older wounds into the hospital scene. Su Xiangwan remembers that her mother had a terminal illness and walked onto a balcony after seeing a drawing of the family holding hands, leaving the child with a memory of guilt and abandonment. Lu Xun recalls being kidnapped at twelve, drugged by his captors, and developing resistance to medication. These histories help explain why danger produces such sharply physical reactions: memory returns through fear, bodily weakness, vigilance, and the urgent need to hold on to another person.

The Assault on Lu Xun

When Lin Yanche appears in an agitated state, Lu Xun moves in a few steps and positions himself behind Su Xiangwan, protecting her with his body. He tells Lin Yanche that he is too agitated, but the warning cannot restore restraint. Lin Yanche grabs Lu Xun by the neck while demanding what qualification Su Xiangwan has to criticize him. Lu Xun answers that she does not have that qualification, a reply that momentarily aligns him with Lin Yanche even as he continues to stand between the two sides.

The verbal concession does not settle the conflict. Lin Yanche strikes Lu Xun in the face and challenges him to take the beating if he intends to protect his woman. Lu Xun’s response is immediate: he rushes forward, while Lin Yanche’s larger group quickly subdues Lu Xun’s men. The fight therefore exposes two kinds of power at once. Lu Xun has the authority and determination to intervene, but Lin Yanche controls the immediate physical field through numbers and agitation. The hospital, ordinarily a place of treatment and restraint, becomes a contested enclosure in which illness does not soften violence; it makes the violence more dangerous.

Su Xiangwan tries to stop the fight, but Lu Xun pushes her away and orders her to stay back. The gesture is protective, yet it also reproduces the controlling pattern that governs their marriage: danger is answered by removing her from decision-making and placing her body under his command. His protection is sincere, but it does not grant her freedom. The scene consequently shifts between tenderness and coercion, making care another form of power within the crisis.

Su Qingrou’s Escape and the Pursuit

While the men are fighting, the door of the ward opens and Su Qingrou is no longer in her sickbed. Su Xiangwan sees her sister’s staggering figure at the far end of the corridor and realizes that she is trying to escape. Because Su Qingrou has only recently undergone an operation, running away is itself a medical danger. Her flight is therefore more than a change of location: it is an attempt to reclaim agency through a body already weakened by injury and confinement.

Lin Yanche notices her disappearance and releases Lu Xun, telling him that the matter is not finished. Lu Xun orders Lin Yanche not to go mad and to take his medicine, but Lin Yanche has already run after Su Qingrou. His agile speed gives the pursuit an ominous inevitability; the promise of further confrontation becomes an immediate physical chase. The original argument over moral authority thus ends by stripping Su Qingrou of safety, with Lin Yanche pursuing the very woman whose condition should have required protection and rest.

The pursuit also reveals the event’s central reversal. Lu Xun begins by defending Su Xiangwan against Lin Yanche, but the disappearance of Su Qingrou redirects the danger. Lin Yanche abandons the fight not because his anger has ended, but because it has found a more urgent object. The hospital confrontation becomes a sequence of linked threats: public accusation, assault, escape, and pursuit, each narrowing the space available to the women at the center of the conflict.

Aftermath and Protective Intimacy

After Lin Yanche leaves, Su Xiangwan trembles against the wall, crouches down, and clutches Lu Xun’s leg. She tells him that she is cold and frightened. Lu Xun, despite the wounds on his face, crouches beside her and embraces her, assuring her that she need not be afraid because he is there. When she notices blood still trickling from the corner of his mouth, her attention turns from fear of what Lin Yanche may do to concern for Lu Xun’s injury. He answers by kissing her, treating her safety as more important than his own wounds.

The reassurance continues after they return. Lu Xun brings Su Xiangwan hot milk and gently asks her to drink it while it is warm. Still shaken, she repeats that she is scared; he holds her and tells her that he has been there all along. The repeated pattern of fear, physical holding, and verbal reassurance creates a temporary shelter after the violence, but it also shows how dependence has been built through crisis. Lu Xun becomes protector, nurse, and emotional anchor, while Su Xiangwan’s vulnerability draws her toward him even as his broader marital rules restrict her independence.

The event is shadowed by illness on every side. Lu Xun suffers from the wound inflicted during the fight; Su Qingrou is recovering from an operation; and Lin Yanche is later revealed to have liver cancer and to be waiting for a suitable liver donor, with death as the alternative. Earlier, Lin Yanche had warned Lu Xun that Su Xiangwan was physically fragile, prone to severe fever, and might need to be identified as a corpse. That cruel warning gains a grim counterpoint when Lin Yanche’s own body is described as thin and endangered. Disease does not erase responsibility for violence, but it makes the confrontation part of a larger economy of damaged bodies, delayed revelations, and people attempting to control one another before illness or abandonment takes the decision away.

Narrative Significance

The confrontation gives physical form to the Su–Lin Family Feud and to the unstable alliance between Lu Xun and Lin Yanche. Lu Xun and Lin Yanche are connected by friendship and alliance, yet their loyalty collapses when Su Qingrou, Su Xiangwan, and the question of family shame enter the room. Lu Xun’s protection of Su Xiangwan places him directly against Lin Yanche, while Lin Yanche’s pursuit of Su Qingrou turns private resentment into immediate danger.

Its deepest significance lies in the way moral speech fails to contain accumulated trauma. Su Xiangwan’s accusation, Lin Yanche’s demand for qualification, Lu Xun’s attempt at command, and Su Qingrou’s silent flight all belong to different forms of communication, but none prevents violence. What finally speaks most clearly is the body: Lin Yanche’s grip and fists, Lu Xun’s bleeding mouth, Su Qingrou’s staggering escape, and Su Xiangwan’s trembling embrace. The event therefore marks a point at which hidden injury becomes public action, and where protection, possession, fear, and love are forced into the same scene.